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					 Post subject: Vista alternative.  Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:58 am   | 
				 
				 
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						 Hate Vista, but don't want to downgrade to XP.  Try Windows Server 08!  
  Saw this article about using server 08 for your workstation and I think I might try it.  
 
  
					
  
						
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:30 am   | 
				 
				 
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						 Try it out and let us know. If it is any good I might consider doing it, as I too dislike Vista.... Well I at least hate my mobo which is all I have had since Vista. So I really can't say. 
					
  
						
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:32 am   | 
				 
				 
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						 reminds me of the days when I used 2000 server for my workstation 
					
  
						
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:55 am   | 
				 
				 
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						 I have Vista on my laptop and I have had zero problems for almost a year now, and I just upgraded to SP1. Granted I don't use it as much, but I have run some pretty heavy programs on it without any problems. 
					
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:25 am   | 
				 
				 
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						 yeah we use vista at work, and its not too bad...  I just prefer the quick boot time of my barebones XP install. 
					
  
						
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:56 pm   | 
				 
				 
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:26 pm   | 
				 
				 
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:16 pm   | 
				 
				 
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:34 pm   | 
				 
				 
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:34 pm   | 
				 
				 
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						 I have Vista on my laptop and on my machine at work and it runs fine on both of them.
  Compared to XP the transfer times are a lot slower, but the stability is there. I would use Vista on my main machine at home too if the gaming performance was on par with XP. As of right now, most all games suffer a decrease in performance when played under Vista, unfortunately. 
					
  
						
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:39 pm   | 
				 
				 
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:40 pm   | 
				 
				 
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:47 pm   | 
				 
				 
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					 Post subject:   Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:13 pm   | 
				 
				 
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						 yeah, it has a habit of hitting its wrist on its chest and trying to bight his ear. 
					
  
						
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